FACT FILE: Stephen John Brady

| Tuesday, 1 August 2006 Source: Searchlight

Stephen John Brady (right)

Stephen John Brady comes from a Catholic family in Northern Ireland. However before leaving the province he became active at a senior level in illegal loyalist terrorist groups including the Ulster Volunteer Force and an extremist section of the Ulster Defence Association.

While studying zoology at Imperial College London in the 1970s he maintained his loyalist connections but also became an officer in the National Front (NF), Britain's largest far-right group at the time.

He later became vice chair of the NF though by this time a series of splits had left it much smaller and weaker.

Brady was a founder member of the hardcore nazi group the League of St George in the 1970s. This group took its name from the Legion of St George, a small group of British and Commonwealth traitors who served the Nazis in the Second World War. Brady became its International Liaison Officer, linking up with legal and illegal nazi groups in Europe.

Brady tried to set up deals between loyalist paramilitaries and European hardline nazi groups. He briefed UDA officers in Belfast on the nature of a number of European rightwing groups and the best ways for the UDA to establish relations with them. In a long letter to the UDA "Supreme Ccommander" Andy Tyrie, Brady praised various European terrorist groups.

Describing the Italian Ordine Nuovo he said, "Basically neo-fascist urban guerrillas whose main activities are machine gunning Red marches, blowing up Red offices, car bombing of Reds, assassination of leading Reds and good clean fun of that sort."

Brady also approved of Turkey's murderous Grey Wolves because its main activity was killing Communists. The Grey Wolves were involved in the attempt to assassinate the last Pope.

In the 1990s Brady was one of an elite group of fascists who attended a dinner in London for the French Front National leader, Jean Marie Le Pen. He and a colleague also held a separate meeting with Le Pen.

Brady also turned up at meetings of the Monday Club, which brought together rightwing Tories and fascists. The Conservative Party proscribed the Monday Club because of its extremism.

Brady has a conviction for assault causing actual bodily harm, for which he served a prison sentence. The conviction did not arise from his political activities but from his close friendship with a member of the notorious south London gangland family the Richardsons.

He was banned from teaching after he failed to declare his conviction.

He moved to Milton Keynes where he got a job in the IT department of Mercedes Benz.

Brady is virulently antisemitic. While at university Brady enjoyed singing a song that celebrated the Nazi death camps and gassing of the Jews, although like many postwar nazis, he also claimed that the Holocaust never happened.